The Blue and Brown Diamond. A History of the 27th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919
Adelaide, Lonnen and Cope, 1921. Dornbusch 310; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 226. More
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A pair of quarter-plate daguerreotype portraits (each approximately 100 × 80 mm) of Thomas Radford (1795-1867) and his wife Martha (1796-1867)
The Radfords were born in Devon, emigrated to South Australia in October 1838, and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects, these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other (later) images of the Radfords are held in..... More
'Officers of the Sth Australian Contingent, Mounted Rifles, 1897'. An impressive portrait photograph of three officers in London for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations
Those present are Colonel James Rowell, Captain Howard Locke Dexter Wilson, and Lieutenant James Hay. 'James Rowell (1851-1940), soldier, orchardist and politician ... is best known for his association with the Volunteer Military Forces of South Australia before Federation, then with those of the Commonwealth.... He commanded the South Australian..... More
An autograph letter signed by Queen Adelaide to Mrs Maria Francis Pallmer, requesting help for a subscription in support of flood victims in northern Germany
The cover is addressed to 'Mrs Pallmer, Norbiton', and is sealed with the Queen's wax seal (the Royal crown below a capital A). Mrs Pallmer, née Dennis, was wife of Charles Nicholas Pallmer, Member of Parliament and Jamaican slave owner, who owed his Surrey estate to his wife. Pallmer was..... More
Bodywhine. A Treatise on the Jardinian Theory. Cartoons by R.W. Blundell, with a Few Words by V.M. Branson
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., 1933. 'The Book has been written for the new regime of cricket; the batter, bruise and bust cricket, which has been thrust upon us. This travesty of an erstwhile noble sport demands new techniques to master it ... We find after years of research that all previous..... More
Loading Grain
This striking image (presumably from the 1930s) features numerous symbols of heavy industry - steam trains, silos, a ship, the elevated loading spout pouring out grain - with the powerfully-built plant operator imposed in front of all of them. It may have been a study for a mural; a lightly..... More
Wild Rivers. Franklin/ Denison/ Gordon
Sandy Bay, Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. A singular copy: the title page is signed by Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996), Bob Brown and Alan Missen, 'Senator for Victoria' (1925-1986), who 'spoke out against the building of Tasmania's Franklin River dam' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the Cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the Purpose of completing the Exploration of Australia ...
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1893. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical, but one has added chromolithographic geological features, and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 (the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here, because McLaren..... More
A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery of that Vast Country ... in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. A superb production, limited to only 500 numbered sets (this is number 98). The storage box was designed with a matching two-door lid opening at the centre, and attached to the base with piano hinges. About a third of the edition was issued..... More
Dardan-Hells, 1915. Being the Unofficial Log of a Battleship which took an Active Part in the Exploit from Start to Finish of the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Campaign Adventures [an unpublished typescript manuscript prepared for publication circa 1960]
The author's short introduction to this work speaks for itself: 'I'm getting towards the afternoon of life now. Looking back to the Dardanelles and Gallipoli in 1915, and the part played by the naval forces and squadrons, I am not only surprised, but am definitely annoyed that, although innumerable volumes..... More
Savage Life in Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in..... More
The Desert Column. Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 18 April 1932 (second impression)/ 15 April 1932. With a foreword by General Sir Harry Chauvel, 'Late Commanding the Desert Mounted Corps'. Idriess introduces this account of his service with the 5th Light Horse Regiment with these words: it 'is more than my diary. It is..... More
The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch. Explorations in the Northern Territory of South Australia [cover title]
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1888. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883', but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition, 'a private one, fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about this series of..... More
Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques, et de ses Problemes en Geometrie, Mecanique, Optique et Catoptrique. Où sont aussi discutées & restablies plusieurs experiences Physiques y proposées
Paris, Chez Rolet Boutonné, 1638 [second edition]/ 1630. The second edition of Claude Mydorge's expanded edition and critique of this popular early work of recreational mathematics, first published in 1624 and usually attributed to Jean Leurechon. Each of Leurechon's mathematical problems is reprinted here in roman type, with Mydorge's explanatory..... More
Mollie's Staircase
Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, [1906]. Twelve verses by Annie Isobel Rentoul, with illustrations by her daughter Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite). Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's second book (after 'Mollie's Bunyip', 1904). Muir 6333. More
'Arrival of the Hon. A.H. Peake, the Premier of South Australia and Party at Manchester on 7th April 1913' [a vintage photograph]
Manchester, Mack & Co. [Photographers], 1913. At the time, Archibald Henry Peake (1859-1920) was the Premier of South Australia, a position he held on three occasions (1909-1910, 1912-1915 and 1917-1920). He died in office on 6 April 1920. In 1912, 'the Liberals won an eight-seat majority ... Peake again became..... More
A vintage photograph captioned 'Interstate - South Australia v. Victorian League. Played in Melbourne, July 1st, 1899'
Adelaide, Dimond Studio, Rundle St. 1899. Football matches between clubs and state teams from South Australia and Victoria were a regular event from 1879 and 1894, 'but in 1894 the concept of representative intercolonial football was once more called into question as the Vics registered an all time record win..... More
An album of eleven 1920s photographs promoting the Shell Company in Australia
Eight of the plates depict scenes of Shell's business activities in Australia (five are in South Australia). These include aerial views of the bulk installations at Gore Bay, NSW, and Birkenhead, SA; Sir Alan Cobham landing at Albert Part, Victoria on 29 August 1926; a fleet of 20 cars used..... More
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